“The problem with rules, he reflected, was that they implied a right way and a wrong way to do things. When, in fact, most of the times there were simply “ways”, none of them quite wrong or quite right, and nothing to tell you for sure which side of the line you stood on. He had always admired his wife’s idealism, her belief that the world could be made better, could be made orderly, could perhaps even be made perfect. For the first time, he wondered if the same held true for him.”
